I'm only 33 years old, and I feel like an old man! (1 Viewer)

[Bryan X]

Hmmmm. The Kennedy assassination. Wasn't there some kinda conspiracy theory? Something about a second spitter.

 

[Holadem]

There is a promo for King of Queens right now on TBS where Kevin James goes like so:
(paraphrasing)
"Remember when you used to go every friday night? Then you started going out... every other friday night?... and now, you stay home on fridays... hoping to save up enough energy to go out on Saturday night?" (he then proceeds to announce his show airs on friday nights).

That last phrase in the quote describes me to a T at this point. In the last couple of months, more often than not, I have fallen asleep on evenings where I fully intended to go out. Is this the begining of the end? .

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[Jon Martin]

While this is the home theatre forum, and I do keep up with video technology (although not enough to have bought into the HD or Blu Ray yet), does anyone else think a lot of technology is just beyond them? Or, they really don't care enought to get into it?

Take for example cell phones. I'm STILL not a fan. I have one, but I keep it in the car. I don't even know how to get voice mail on it. I have a phone at home, and at work, but why must we be in contact 24 hours a day?

And text messages? Haven't a clue how to do it, and don't quite get the point of it.

And then there are IPODs. I have a small MP3 player, and like the idea of having an IPOD, but then I look at my hundreds of CDs and think of the work it would take to convert them all onto the IPOD, and I just think "Forget it. I'll stick to CDs". This is especially ironic, since I have a podcast that is on ITUNES, so I only listen to it on my computer.

 

[andrew markworthy]

I used to think they were dumb as well, but they can be handy at times - regard them like emails. E.g. my wife and I find them more practical than leaving voicemail messages for each other.

However, what really confuses me is Y U have 2 use semi-literate shorthand. Most mobile phones have word finisher programmes so it isn't exactly time-consuming to send properly-spelt messages.

With regard to mp3 players, I really like them. But there again, my player is full of classical music.

 

[Carlo_M]

Yes.

 

[Danny Tse]

Geez, all these complains of feeling old. I am about to turn 39 at the end of the month....and 40 is right around the corner.

If you guys want to feel young again, come work for the government. I work for the State and there're people here who have been with same agency for 40+ years. Several months ago, we gave a retirement party to our 86 year old IT guy. Not kidding. I think he realized it was finally time to retire after he fell asleep in front of the computer while surfing for porn. Again, not kidding....

 

[MarkHastings]

What's crazy about my job is, I am 36 and there are a lot of older people who work here. There are only 1 or 2 who are younger than I am, so I get lumped into the "Young" crowd. The funniest part of it all is, this Sat. will be my 10 year anniversary of working full time here!

It's throwing people for a loop that I look so young, yet have been here for 10 years.

 

[todd s]

Its true. My wife and I had some friends over. It was 11pm and we we all beat and ready for bed....We all laughed that this is when we used to leave to go out...Meanwhile, all the kids were still up running around like madmen.

 

[Jack Briggs]

To those of you who remember The Beatles at the time of the band's break-up: I saw the band play, back in 1966. It was a very big experience.

I, too, remember when President Kennedy was assassinated -- and it was one of the worst weekends I can remember.

And, yes, there was a certain film that I saw when it was released in 1968. It has been my all-time favorite ever since.

The years go by.

 

[Dennis Nicholls]

Weekend? I remember being in elementary school that week and my teacher getting all choked up about the "breaking" news of the JFK assassination. I remember asking "does that mean we are at war?"


Which film is that? There were lots of good films in 1968: Oliver, The Lion in Winter, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Funny Girl, Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, The Producers, Rosemary's Baby, Ice Station Zebra, Shoes of the Fisherman, Planet of the Apes, Bullitt, Finian's Rainbow, The Odd Couple, The Thomas Crown Affair, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and I'm sure there must be others....

 

[Bryan X]

11/22/63 was a Friday which would have put you in school but also pretty much ruined your weekend. I was born exaclty 6 years later to the day.

 

[Bob Graz]

Things I remember as a kid. Opening the window to reach out and turn the antenna to improve TV reception. The first color TV we got. The original TV remotes that worked off of ultrasonics. Jingling coins would change the channel. Going to Radio Shack with my father to test TV tubes.

When I graduated engineering school in 1979, my first job involved writing test code (using an ICE simulator) for the Intel 8008 processor, which was Intel's first general purpose processor.

 

[Kevin Hewell]

That's the year that I was born. My mom said The Beatles were great.

 

[Holadem]

It happened again last night - I am way too young for this shit :frowning:.

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[MarkHastings]

I hear ya. I hate when my mind's age hasn't caught up to my body's age.

The mind of a child, the body of a senior citizen.

 

[Carlo_M]

Now that is about the funniest s@#t I've read on this board in a long, long time. Luckily I wasn't drinking my latte or it would be all over my laptop's screen.

I too work for the state, and yes, people stay a very long time (to max out their pensions I'm sure) and I'm 32, also lumped in with the young crowd. Yet back in April I celebrated my 10th year (they hired me while in my last year of college and allowed me to work and finish school).

Ironically, I applied and was selected for an upper management position, and I now manage a staff of 12 (soon to grow to 16 or 17 after a merger in early 2007) and only one or two are anywhere near me in age. The rest are between 40-60, with a top-heavy lean in that age bracket.

Of course still being on-campus, I have that nice dichotomy where I feel young at work, and old as soon as I leave the building (or when our student workers come in).

By the way, how's this for sad: I've figured out that I will earn 99% of my salary if I retire at 60, and 92% if I go at 59 (earlier than that really drops off percentage wise). What's sad is that I know that, and I'm already debating if that last year of lost life to work is worth the 7%.

 

[Citizen87645]

I might have told this anecdote before...

I have a co-worker who at one time introduced me to her students as "This is Cameron. He's actually much older than he looks." One time she got it reversed, which allowed me to say, "Yes, I'm actually 12."

I too am approaching 10 years at the same place. I think when I have to announce that to a group I will fake a fainting spell.

 

[MarkHastings]

Yeah, when I told people I had been working there for 10 years, they all give me the same look that a dog gets when you blow a dog whistle.

You can tell they're doing math in their heads and are confused..."If he's 28 and has been working here for 10 years, then he started at 18, but he said he went to college, so he couldn't have started here at 18...."

 

[Francois Caron]

I'm 41 now and have been working for the same company for 16 years. Back then, I wasn't even if I could ever hold a job for that long a period, but somehow I've managed it. However, I don't intend to work there until retirement. I have other plans such as my TV station. It's a pretty big jump going from IT senior management to television mongul (in Canada? ) but I think it's worth a shot while I'm old enough to be taken seriously but still young enough to enjoy the challenge.

 

[Buzz Foster]

I feel like I have been getting my second wind. Thirty-nine is coming up in February, and I have never felt better. Now I know why middle age guys buy motorcycles.